Lieutenant-Colonel F. Dodd Tweedie
Carleton and York Regiment

This is a hazard faced by all historians, since none of their major sources, be they documents or oral testimony, are infallible, and judgement have to be made on the balance of probability. Thus most narrative history may be, at best, no more than an approximation of what actually happened.

(Tweedie, foreword to Tooley, Invicta: The Carleton add York Regiment in the Second World War, vii)

Born in Centreville, New Brunswick on 14 September 1901, Frederick Dodd Tweedie was an Edmundston lawyer and active member of the Rotary Club. A prewar militia major, he succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel W.C. Lawson in command of the Carleton and York Regiment in February 1942. While he was responsible for training and leading the regiment for over a year before it went into action in Sicily, by the end of August he would be unceremoniously removed.

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